Today was my Weight Watchers meeting and I have officially acheived the first 5 lb weight loss! YAY! That was my goal for this past week. Now I am sitting 5.6 lbs thinner at 173.2lbs. My goal is to get under 170 by my half birthday which is Feb 9th. That gives me two weeks to really bust my butt to lose 4 lbs. I am sure with hard work I can obtain that.
On a side note, the Biggest Loser video is a butt kicker! Oh My Goodness! After 20 minutes I am sweating like a beast and breathing like a asmatic! Bob has you do lunges like every other minute and if you can't tell by now, I HATE lunges! It is good though, my legs and butt are my weakest and biggest part of my body. I have never really had a problem with my stomach, but my lower half is the problem. So Sean has told me that is where my focus is going to be. When I did the video on Saturday, my legs were still sore from the Tuesday workout so doing the video on top of that really killed!
Tonight is lunges, squats and dead lifts again. Whoo-Hoo!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

During one of my Weight Watchers meeting the leader commented on how we should eat each day. You should eat like a King/Queen in the morning, Prince/Princess in the afternoon and a Pauper in the evening. What we normally eat is King/Queen morning, afternoon and evening. So yesterday in my attempt to eat like a Queen I decided to eat a fairly big breakfast, something beyond my normal bowl of cereal. I love love LOVE hash browns so I made my own.

Hash Browns
Grate one potato, rise under water to remove startch and blot to remove excess water.
Pour 1 tsp of olive oil into a skillet and heat. Add potatoes and some salt. Cook them until they start to get brown.
Hash browns might be a little crunchy still so heat in microwave for 1 min.

I also made Toad's in a Hole
Take two slices of whole wheat bread. Spread margarine or other low fat "butter" on them. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out centers. Spray down a pan with PAM. Place bread on hot pan and crack one egg into the center that was cut out. Make sure to also cook the center of bread! Flip and enjoy!

I swear this was the most filling breakfast I have ever had! I did not get hungry until about 3-4pm. The whole meal was about 10 points, so high in calories but extremely dense food for the point value! So I have decided to make sure that I eat more filling breakfasts so that I can better stick to my point values. My goal this week is to hit my first 5 lbs. That means to lose 2 lbs. I am going to continue to power lift with Sean and be more active during the day. Cleaning definitely burns lots of calories!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Now I promise to be a lot better at writing on this blog. It is just that things have gotten a little crazy around here. Which I know is no excuse but I promise I am doing what I can. So January 5th was my first Weight Watchers meeting and I weighed in at 178.8 lbs. Depressing, I know. Then on January 12th I went in and I lost 2.8 lbs bringing my weight down to 176 lbs. We will see how today goes, last week I got strep throat which I hope will help with the scale seeing how for three days I ate very little. Or it might have a adverse affect.
A recipe that I found I love and fills me up is Egg Drop Soup. If you love Asian food like I do, you will enjoy this recipe.
6 cups water
6 chicken bullions
1 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce
2 eggs
1/2 cup peas
Boil water, bullion, soy sauce and peas. Beat the eggs, once water boils, pour the eggs in slowly while mixing. Cool and enjoy! Yummy!
I think I need to find some better exercise videos. With Lucas potty training I really don't want to set up a gym membership and have Lucas having accidents there. I have a kick boxing DVD but I need a little more variety. I really wish it wasn't so snowy here because I miss running. We'll see....